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 PUBLIC LAW 95-586—NOV. 3, 1978

92 STAT. 2489

thence easterly along last said north line, 130.3 feet, more or less, to a point in a line parallel with and distant 74.08 feet southwesterly, measured at right angles, from said center line of said transportation company's main track; thence south 14 degrees 58 minutes 30 seconds east, last said parallel line, 1,000 feet, more or less, to the northeasterly corner of said 1,343-acre parcel of land described in said deed dated November 4, 1974 to Calvin Clark III; thence north 88 degrees 57 minutes west, along the northerly line of last said parcel, 131.02 feet to the true point of beginning, containing an area of 2.89 acres, more or less. SEC. 103. (a) Nothing in this Act shall— (1) diminish the right-of-way referred to in the first section of this Act to a width of less than fifty feet on each side of the center of the main track or tracks established and maintained by the Southern Pacific Company on the date of the enactment of this Act; or (2) validate or confirm any right or title to, or interest in, the land referred to in the first section of this Act arising out of adverse possession, prescription, or abandonment, and not confirmed by conveyance made by the Southern Pacific Company before the date of the enactment of this Act. (b) There is reserved to the United States all oil, coal, or other Rules and minerals in the land referred to in the first section of this Act, together regulations, with the right to prospect for, mine, and remove such oil, coal, or other minerals under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. TITLE II—TO CONFIEM A CONVEYANCE O F CERTAIN REAL PROPERTY BY THE SOUTHERN P A C I F I C RAILROAD COMPANY TO M. L. WICKS SEC. 201. The conveyance described in section 202(a) of this Act involving certain real property in Los Angeles County, California, is hereby confirmed in the successors in interest to M. L. Wicks, the grantee in such conveyance, with respect to all interests of the United States in the rights to the real property described in section 202(b) of this Act. Portions of the real property described in such section 202(b) formed part of the right-of-way granted to the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, a corporation, by the United States by the Act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Texas Pacific Railroad Company, and to and in the Construction of its Road, and for other purposes", approved March 3, 1871 (16 Stat. 573). SEC. 202. (a) The conveyance confirmed by this Act was made by a deed dated May 4, 1887, by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, a corporation, and D. O. Mills and Gerrit L. Lansing, Trustees, to M. L. Wicks and recorded on May 9, 1887, in the office of the county recorder of Los Angeles County, in the Book of Official Records, Book 222 at page 172. (b) The real property referred to in the first section of this Act is Description, certain real property in the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section 15, township 7 north, range 12 west, San Bernardino Meridian, in Los Angeles County, California, more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the intersection of the easterly line of Sierra Highway (formerly Antelope Avenue) 90 feet wide as shown on county surveyor's map numbered 8200 on file in the office of

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